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I agree with test, track and trace but I won't be touching this app with a barge pole.

https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/28/apple-api/ gives some of the reasons.

A number of the people involved with the UK app are ex-Cambridge Analytica staff and we know how concerned they are with privacy.

The Google/Apple API isn't an app itself but a interface that allows people/governments/countries to quickly, easily and securely develop their own. So the UK could still develop their own, and maybe even this time do it properly and actually put it out to tender (with a short deadline) rather than pick companies that they want to funnel the money to.

Plumose wrote:A number of the people involved with the UK app are ex-Cambridge Analytica staff and we know how concerned they are with privacy.

Extraordinarily concerned. Extremely interested in it.

When it's privacy that applies to what they are up to.

I find it absolutely laughable people are scared the government are using the track and trace apps for anything more than advertised. If anyone in power wanted to spy on you or steal your information we already give them free access to this by carrying a mobile phone everywhere we go that can ping your location at any time, see what messages sent, your spending habits etc.

What do you mean "we already give them free access etc. etc........" ?
My mobile is only switched on if I'm expecting a call, or if the car breaks down..........

Pete

Well your one of a few that do that Pete. How many people here are using mobiles to view this site. If big government really wanted to track you there is anpr, where you haves used your bank card, telephone numbers dialed landline and mobile, your ni code, where you stay as your fac or sgc is there. The point is a track and trace app is not needed to spy on your private life but in fact used to see if your at risk of covid.

I for one won't have or use a smart phone.

I couldn't use my phone to go online even if I wanted to, fortunately I can afford a proper computer so no need to faff on with a daft phone to access the internet.

HOW can anyone effectively use a silly mobile phone for online stuff with their silly little buttons? Only people with pixie sized fingers can use them. That's why that annoying txt spk s*** was developed. You'd need to carry a magnifying glass around to properly see the screen, anyhow.

I carry a mobile phone about for emergency breakdown use, monitoring my alarm, and because it has a camera. I rarely phone someone with it because I have pay as you go. It's an expensive luxury that needs to be paced sensibly. That said, if I ever break down on a 'Smart' motorway I fully intend to phone the highway agency responsible for that stretch so that my dying screams haunt the person that picks up and hears me being flattened by a foreign trucker masturbating over porn on his phone.

The only thing I use my mobile phone for is making and receiving phone calls. Why would I want to surf the net on the phone when I have a room full of computers connected to the internet most of them with 28" monitors and some of them dual monitors. Some of which I built my self. Although I don't do a lot of building now a days since I gave up gaming and the mapping thing.
I have only ever actually bought one computer apart from the ones supplied by the Company I have built every computer I have used my self. Including the one I am on now posting this.

Alpha1 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 10:56 pm The only thing I use my mobile phone for is making and receiving phone calls. Why would I want to surf the net on the phone when I have a room full of computers connected to the internet most of them with 28" monitors and some of them dual monitors. Some of which I built my self. Although I don't do a lot of building now a days since I gave up gaming and the mapping thing.
I have only ever actually bought one computer apart from the ones supplied by the Company I have built every computer I have used my self. Including the one I am on now posting this.

Why? Because you might need to look something up on the internet when out and about, nowhere near those computers.